The head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, speaks about what is really at stake beyond the Special Operations in Ukraine and in the world:
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“Russia’s special military operation was a real moment of truth for the Russian world, firmly declaring its readiness to fully defend its right to an original existence in the face of aggressive globalism embodied in American hegemony, NATO expansion, the policy of “liberal interventionism” and LGBT propaganda."
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✔️ The bitterness of the confrontation clearly indicates that we are talking about something much larger than the fate of the Kiev regime. In fact, the architecture of the entire world order is at stake. We can say with confidence: there will be no return to the old.

✔️ The Russian special operation will definitely put an end to attempts to turn Ukraine into a Russophobic puppet state, building its identity on the basis of manic denial and demonisation of everything that objectively connects it with Russia.

✔️ At the current stage, Washington sees its main task in prolonging the conflict as much as possible, making it as costly as possible for both Moscow and Kyiv, while at the same time preventing the escalation from spreading further to the West. NATO, as American "strategists" emphasise, should try to turn Ukraine "into a kind of Afghanistan."

✔️ Having neither the strength nor the courage to challenge Russia openly and honestly, the West is trying to arrange an economic, informational and humanitarian blockade for our country, to create an atmosphere of “toxicity” around it that would make it impossible to continue normal life.

✔️ Tactically, this uses the “cancellation culture” mechanism worked out by the American left-liberal elites on their right-wing competitors, and now scaled to a global level.

✔️ A comfortable, secure life, especially for the middle class, has been one of the pillars of political stability in Western countries for many years. Now, because of the “crusade” against Russia announced by Washington, the population of the United States and EU states is facing unprecedented rises in prices for fuel, electricity, food.

✔️ Residents of Europe have already begun mentally to prepare for the prospects of introducing ration cards and turning off heating, which, it turns out, “can be easily replaced with sweaters.” And all this is under the pretext of helping the Ukrainian people, although it is precisely for Ukrainians that all these measures, as they say, are neither hot nor cold.

✔️ Western elites are simply using the current situation to implement their long-cherished plans to de facto eliminate the middle class in the spirit of the well-known scenario proposed by the Davos World Economic Forum:
“By 2030, you will have nothing and you will be happy!”

✔️ The desire to maintain the role of world hegemon is pushing the United States to dangerous military-political adventures. The development of geopolitical confrontation in the European theatre of operations is closely monitored by the leaders of the countries of the non-Western world. All of them, including the US allies, are not averse to testing the strength of the weakening hegemon by expanding their borders made possible through foreign and domestic policy.

✔️ At the moment, a fundamentally new stage of European and world history is unfolding right before our eyes. Its essence lies in the collapse of the unipolar world and the system of international relations based on the right of the strongest, that is, the United States, to destroy other states in order to prevent the slightest possibility of their transformation into alternative centres of power.

✔️ Today Russia is openly challenging this system - creating a truly multipolar world that has never existed before and from which everyone will benefit in the future, even our current opponents.

✔️ If Europe and the United States lack the maturity and courage to move in this direction, the rest of the centres of power will have to design a global future without them. The obsolete liberal universalism should be replaced by a truly new world order - just and stable."